As Monterey Car Week, the richest car event in the west—if not the world—wraps up this weekend, there’s been a few debut standouts that deserve a shoutout.
There’s the Bugatti Bolide, a €4 million ($4.69 million) “experimental” hypercar concept first unveiled in Oct. 2020 that’s now getting life as a production vehicle. The 1,824-horsepower beast boasts an eight-liter W16 engine, a seven-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission, and all-wheel drive. It can reach 62 mph in 2.17 seconds, according to the French manufacturer. Only 40 will be made.
There’s the Audi Skysphere, the first in a trio of concept vehicles from the German luxury brand. The all-electric roadster with carriage-style doors and oversized wheels can shorten or elongate its wheelbase with the push of a button whether drivers want a sportier driving experience or, well, not to drive at all. When in 5.19-meter longwheel-base form, the car operates on level four autonomous driving and offers maximum, extensive legroom in a beyond plush interior.
And then there’s the new Lamborghini Countach. That’s right, the most super of supercars is back for a limited run timed to its 50th anniversary.
The original Countach was the ultimate poster child for fans of fast cars in the ’70s and ’80s, with a wedge-shaped design, scissor doors, and almost hormonal level sex appeal. It was a revolution— and an incredible investment.
The Countach LPI 800-4 pays homage with much of the same style updated with modern tech. Carbon fiber keeps the weight down and an all-wheel-drive hybrid platform combines a V12 engine with a 48V e-motor and supercapacitor technology. There’s 825 horsepower total, a 2.8 second sprint time and a top speed of 221mph.
For lucky longtime Lamborghini customers even being granted the chance to fork over $2.64 million, deliveries begin in the first quarter of 2022. Only 112 cars will be made.
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Pepperoni, pineapple, and pig's blood?
Big data is helping create your pizza—at least in Taiwan, where the latest nontraditional toppings feature a mash of pig’s blood cake and century eggs.
As demand for western fast food boomed during Taiwan’s recent Covid-19 lockdown, Pizza Hut Holdings LLC scraped social media posts for the most talked about foods, and created word clouds of potential new ingredients.
“We leveraged social listening to understand customers’ preferences,” said Antony Leung, general manager of Pizza Hut Taiwan. “Online data also told us that Taiwan customers value local flavors and a food sensation.”
One pizza was bought every 8 seconds and the creation was sold out just 4 days after the launch in late June, early July, the company said.
It’s not the first time Taiwan has seen an unconventional blend of western and local ingredients. In 2019, Domino’s Pizza Inc. created the boba—a pizza served with sweet tapioca pearls as an homage to the popular bubble milk tea. The fusion stirred a buzz on social media and Pizza Hut came up with its own toppings, including ramen and spicy hot pot. It even made a pizza topped with durian, the thorny fruit with creamy custard-like flesh and a powerful odor.
It’s all part of an “adopt and adapt” strategy, also known as “localization.” South Korea has the bulgogi pizza with marinaded BBQ beef; India has butter chicken; while Japan has experimented with natto—a traditional food made from fermented soybeans.
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Pick Up a Picasso
If you ever dined at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, you may have found yourself sitting near some incredible art.
Now, MGM Resorts is selling it. On Oct. 23 Sotheby’s will auction 11 Picassos that could bring in as much as $104 million. The stated goal is to use at least some of the proceeds to purchase more diverse art by masters in their own time: “women, artists of color, and the LGBTQIA community,” says Ari Kastrati, MGM Resorts’ chief hospitality officer.
The top lot is expected to be Picasso’s 1938 painting Femme au Béret Rouge-Orange, which depicts the artist’s lover and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and carries an estimate of $20 million to $30 million.
Like many of the other artworks for sale, the painting was acquired in the late 1990s under the Bellagio’s founder Steve Wynn, himself a notable art collector.
In addition to the multimillion-dollar paintings which hung on the walls of the Bellagio’s aptly named Picasso restaurant, there are also a handful of comparatively lower-priced lots.
A white terra cotta pitcher from 1954 is estimated between $60,000 and $80,000; a gouache (a type of watercolor) on paper from 1967, Tête d’Homme, carries an estimate of $1.5 million to $2 million.
Kastrati is planning satellite events in conjunction with the sale. There will be an exhibition of luxury objects including cars, watches, and purses at the MGM ARIA resort, which will later be sold at Sotheby’s, and he says there are other events in the works. “We’re hoping this can be an annual event,” he says.
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